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Welcome to the MSIS Program

The Master of Science in Information Systems (MSIS) degree prepares you for a leadership
career in Information Systems. The job of the information-systems professional is
to understand and improve the ways organizations derive value from information. Information-systems
professionals have a variety of roles and responsibilities. Business leaders (including
Chief Information Officers, or CIOs) focus on ways to nurture and exploit information
assets to gain competitive advantage in their industries. Technical practitioners
focus on the specification, development, and deployment of new information-related
capabilities.

The MSIS is an internationally recognized credential. The SDSU degree program is modeled
after a curriculum jointly published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
and the Association for Information Systems (AIS).

Career Possibilities

The MSIS degree can ready you for a career path that suits your passions. If you are
interested in technical practice, you can focus on areas such as software, networking,
security, and databases. If you are interested in information strategy, you can learn
how to enhance competitiveness through smarter and faster decision making, improved
productivity, and process integration with business partners. You also have career
options in the middle: systems analysts work with users to define their requirements,
and work with technical people to design and implement systems that will meet those
needs. Because information is the fuel that runs the modern enterprise, well-trained
information-systems professionals are always in high demand.

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